IOS 8 Keyboard click loses focus on field

Hello all, I am using:

App Studio 4.1.1 xCode 8.4 Yosemite 10.10.4

I am running into the issue that when the the keyboard is clicked (a single time), the field loses focus and the keyboard disappears. This leads to issues with data validation. It does not happen with all text fields. I have a textField on another page, in a TableViewSection, that works just fine. The non-working display has 3 columns, as opposed to two columns on the working display. Below is the code I am using. Any and all help is appreciated.

vlFieldleft = Titanium.UI.createTextField(
{
    value: techEntry.voltageleft,
    color: '#000',
    left:140,
    width:50,
    font:
    {
        fontSize:16
    },
//  textAlign:'right',
    borderColor:'#ccc',
    borderRadius:2,
    keyboardType:Titanium.UI.KEYBOARD_NUMBERS_PUNCTUATION,
    returnKeyType:Titanium.UI.RETURNKEY_DEFAULT,
    enableReturnKey: true
});